The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-17
MIXED SCHOOLS.

Rev. Atticus q. Haygood's Views on tho
Scare Among the Legislators OF Georgia.
Atlanta Special the Louisv lille Courier journal.
Rev. Atticus G.. Haygood. after Senator Cob
quit. the most popular man in the SouthArH
Methodist Church formerly president Of Enry
College, and now general manager of the States
funds, has been heard from in regard to the
Glenn co-education BILL aud Is against it. Hs
says:
Georgia needs nothing less than new legsla-
ton to prevent the co-educaton of the races.
AS to all public schools, both the Constitution
and law forbid it. There is no Georgia law 81
little violated. There is less tendency violate
this law than any other on the statue-book. The
tendency to obey the law is strong as the
tendency of the Mississippi to find the Gulf Of
Mexico The United States army could not
make the people of Georgia violate this law
against the co-education of the races. Unneces-
sary legislation is never wise legislation
There several hundred thousand children
of school age in GEORGIA So far as anybody
knows there were during the school year
1867, just fourteen small white children
tending schools for negro children and there
not one negro child At any school for white chill
dren. The of the fourteen small wsits
children attending a private school for gro
children is tough one. Their parents, Northern
people. doing work that ali rational South
erners know must be done. and that Sou,h-
will not do. These children have been
born to them and have lived to be old enough II
go to school, What is to be done with themf
Send them North2 Parents naturally wish to
bring up their children and 10 live with
them. Besides. most of these teachers are too
children from home to be brought up well
schooled. Send them to Southern white
schools We grow n-up Southerners have for
twenty years tabooed them for teaching negro
schools and their experience with us has not en-
couraged them to believe that their children
would have a good time at school with chill
dren. What to do with their own children is
very sore problem with these teachers. 1t is my
privilege to know more of them personally than
any other Southern man knows, perhaps than
any other one man knows 1t is my business
a
k now them. There
worth knowing. I honor them just an
China These few children need not scare
Georgia. There is not the least probability that
the number of white children residing with theii
parents in negro schools will increase There
are not as many there were fifty years ago.
When they attend Southern white schoolf
in comfort they will do II it shall appear
,versity, and this seems to be the storm center
at present. the State needs no new law to pro-
tect itself. The commissioners need not
pay over money if it is used in violation of law
"For years past in many places North and
South. have see forth the doctrine that sepa.
rate schools are best for both races. In this |
people North and South. This is to all intenta
and purposes tho American idea the subject
Of tho two races, and it is the American practice.
The social fabric of Georgia ia not in DANGER il
does not need to be buttreesed by a new school
law, with a chain-gang penalty. Certainly
Georgia is not afraid of anybody She will man
the world says. but a decent respect fol
the opinions of mankind is neither weak
ness nor cowardly Justice. to be edu.
cative, should economic. penalties II
of the present teachers OF Of
these fourteen children should be chain-ganged
for teaching his own child in his own colored
school, what will justice do when crime is COM
mitted 2 A girl was once hanged in England for
stealing ribbon. That execu ton did not make
banging for murder. Considering the fact that
no negro children are in any white schools; that
no white children are In any public schools for
negroes. and that only fourteen small white
children are in certain private negro schools, 1t
seems to that the legislators dc
not vote for the chain gang penalty be-
cause they are really afraid for tbs
social fabric Possibly the fear of being
thought in favor of some sort of social equality
leads men to vote for anything that is against
it, whether il is needed or not 1t seems TO me.
as have often heretofore tried to teach, thai
the best interests of both races require them to
keep their blood pure. There is no hope for either
in mscegenation. There is a Georgia law against
a law more violated ten to one,
if not in the letter, the reality and spirit of Tt
IL an the law against mixed schools. If. now,
the Legislature will give law placing tbs
parents of muatto children in the chain gang il
would be worth while"